After a spirited auction process, the expired Tootsville.com domain name is now ours. Beginning in May, Tootsville.com will redirect players who might follow links on old reviews or blogs to Tootsville.org as well!

We have obtained a list of many of the e-mail addresses of parents who requested news and information e-mails from Tootsville.com. It’s uncertain exactly when this list was made, but it seems to date from around August or September of 2009.

This list has the e-mail addresses of parents who ticked the option “please send me news and updates by e-mail” when they logged in to Tootsville.com around that time.

Beginning now, and running through Friday, we’ll be reaching out to them with a message like the following.

Hopefully, this will let our legacy players reserve their Toot names now, and maybe find some old friends who haven’t heard about the new game yet.

Between 2010 and into 2012, Tootsville player “Otiekinz” wrote a blog about what was happening in Tootsville. You can read it here. Hundreds of users read Otie’s stories about games and special events in Tootsville at the time.

What if I’m new?

If the Toot name you want hasn’t been reserved by anyone else, you can reserve it right now. You’ll be one of the first new players in the new game.

What if my old name isn’t available?

First, check out the rules of what is allowed in a Toot name. For example, you can use hyphens, but not spaces, and you can’t put numbers at the beginning. These rules may be a little bit different than they used to be.

If more than one person asks for the same name, one of our volunteers will contact you. We ask that new players, please allow the legacy players “first pick” of their old names.

In the end, our staff will work with you to pick a name you like. You can text or e-mail for assistance — text (in the US or Canada) 954-324-4739 or e-mail support@tootsville.adventuring.click and someone will usually respond fairly quickly.

(Text messages may be billed by your phone carrier at your usual rate. We can also answer voice mails, but that will take longer. We’re volunteers here … !)